Admission is a waste of time (262)
Lesson 51. Strong Alliance – 4
“Wow, I’m seriously surprised.”
[That’s what I wanted to say! How did you show up at that timing?!]
At the very moment when they were about to enter the dimensional wall, Release and Eve, who had used the Origin Sword’s teleportation ability to return to Ban Yu-won’s side, were very excited.
That’s understandable. He was disguised as an Exodus executive, swinging his Requiem around excitedly and breaking through the pirate fleet, declaring, “Okay, I’ve accomplished my goal, so I’m going back!” when the mastermind himself appeared from the dimensional wall leading his fleet.
It was fortunate that I made the switch at such a perfect time that the Crimson Spear guys didn’t notice, as I would have been caught in concentrated fire from both sides.
“You worked hard, Eve. And Lilith too. It was dangerous, but thanks to you, the board was set up perfectly.”
“Shishishit.”
Eve, who had been laughing heartily as an Exodus executive just a moment ago, was now wrapped in Ban Yoo-won’s arms and making noises.
At this point, Ban Yu-won thought that it was not a doubt but a certainty that the boy could speak, but if he didn’t want to talk, there was no need to make him speak.
Above all, it was possible to communicate just with the sound of the tongue and breathing.
“My life as a mercenary is short, but this is the first time I’ve received such a crazy request, really.”
Keira shook her head as she watched the Crimson Spear and Exodus fighting in real time in the video that Tike was sending her, and the Guardian Alliance forces caught between them and not knowing what to do.
The earrings on her ears dangled charmingly.
“My body was overwhelmingly comfortable.”
It seemed as if they were going to watch the space battle in earnest, as Ban Yu-mi opened a bag of snacks next to him and spoke in a nonchalant manner.
Just a moment ago, she had been tensing her muscles and preparing to run away at the thought of having to fight pirates, but now she was ready to collapse on the ground.
The way they prepared for battle and the way they spread out as soon as there was nothing left to fight about were like those of a beast.
The earrings on her ears shone brightly.
“What good is it if you’re comfortable? It’s just dog hair after all. Who would rob the ruins of their own country?”
“Dog hair? No?”
As Selden grumbled, Aneri flicked the earring on her ear and said,
Selden, unable to bear the blatant and annoying earring appeal of the three people, finally stood up.
“Oh, you’re so happy because you each received a pair of earrings that look exactly like those? Big sister, I’m going to buy you a ring with a huge diamond in it too, so just sit right over there and wait!”
“No, I don’t need yours. Sit down.”
“I’m really sad… … .”
“Sheldon, be quiet for a moment. This is just so much fun.”
At the right time, Kang Eun-young stopped Selden’s power.
Since the only person who treated Selden like a human within the mercenary group was Kang Eun-young, he sat down without being able to raise his voice any longer.
But then I noticed the bracelet on her wrist was shaking.
Selden looked back at Ban Yu-won with a dumbfounded expression and said.
“… … Hey, is it just me that doesn’t have anything?”
“Are you saying I’m crazy enough to give a gift to a guy?”
“and……!”
Selden, who couldn’t bring himself to say anything because he was worried about Kang Eun-young and Aneri’s reactions, just made a dumbfounded expression.
On the contrary, Ban Yu-won was at a loss as to what on earth she thought was so pretty that she would give herself a gift, but he didn’t point it out.
However, there were some parts of what he said that were true.
“I haven’t shared what I got from the ruins yet. Here it is for you.”
What Ban Yu-won took out along with those words was a gold bar made of rare metal that had been discovered in the ruins… … It was half of it.
All of the Dragon Sword replicas have been absorbed into Requiem and disappeared, and the books I gave you won’t be able to read them, so this is all I can give you.
However, since it is basically a part of the metal that made up the Yongsal Sword and contains materials that cannot be found in the world today even if you die and come back to life, its value will by no means be low.
“I ate a lot, but I’m satisfied with this since I wouldn’t have been able to enter the ruins without you anyway.”
“No, Yuwon-nim already did everything anyway, so what are we going to do if we receive this! … … Rookie, you died earlier.”
Aneri, who had been glaring at Selden with an expression that seemed as if she was seriously about to bury a person, pushed the loot he was handing over back towards him.
But Ban Yu-won said he would not accept it.
“I have been analyzing the books excavated from the ruins so far… … It seems like there is some material from the True Dragon mixed in.”
“What did you say?”
It was funny to see Aneri, who had been holding out the material, instinctively pull it back towards her.
As Ban Yu-won smiled faintly, Aneri realized belatedly what her instincts had done and panicked, but the strength in her hand holding the metal did not diminish.
It is a precious material that cannot be yielded even in front of Ban Yu-won, who is his ‘favorite’.
Keira, who had rushed over to the side at the mention of the True Dragon, also looked at the silver metal emitting a bright light with a newly curious expression.
“True Dragon… … How about a True Dragon? The existence of a True Dragon is now being questioned. Dragon Slayer Sword? Is it something like that, where you have to use materials made by catching a dragon to kill a dragon?”
“Something similar.”
Ban Yu-won took out a research book from inside the ruins and opened it.
It was written in a mixture of ancient and obviously different grammatical systems, probably using verbs.
A top secret document that will cause anyone who is not qualified to read it to be cursed and thrown out the moment they open it.
Of course, that would not work for Ban Yu-won, who was the master of the power of language, and for now, he was in a position where he was slowly being interpreted one book at a time.
“It is clearly written in the research records when Asha’s ancestors created the Dragon Sword. They ground up the bones and scales of their own kind, boiled them with blood, and began experimenting by mixing them with various metals. Each of these alchemy processes contains deep shamanic meanings, so it would be difficult to follow them recklessly.”
Ban Yu-won said, pointing to a picture that took up a large page of the book.
There was an exaggerated picture of a giant dragon being placed in a furnace to extract metal, in the same style as the picture drawn on the walls of the ruins.
Since it’s an alloy, it probably contains other metals besides the dragon’s material, but they’re probably not ordinary either.
The book also stated that in order to melt and process gold, one must follow the exact steps outlined in the book, as any other method could result in a terrible curse or magical explosion.
“Even if a miracle somehow occurred and someone unrelated to Camelot or the True Dragon obtained the metal from the ruins, they would have brought about a terrible disaster if they had touched it without reading the book.”
“Isn’t this book scarier than metal? It’s the other world version of the Necronomicon.”
“Sister, you need to slowly lose your sense of being human.”
“Yumi, if you’re going to be a mercenary, you need to figure out what’s valuable.”
Unlike those born in other dimensions, Ban Yu-mi, who was born on Earth and still doesn’t know how much significance the True Dragon holds, was making an indifferent expression, but Kang Eun-young slapped her shoulder.
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Even my mother, who has been through a lot and is not easily shaken by anything, seemed unable to maintain her composure this time.
“If it’s really the material of a true dragon, then this is… … not material that a new mercenary group can handle.”
“Don’t worry, Lady Seira. In the first place, no one will be able to recognize an alloy made from the material of a true dragon.”
“I need to get to know the blacksmith who is tight-lipped.”
Even if it’s only half, since it’s obtained by searching through the entire ruins, it should be enough to satisfactorily arm all members.
While the members were all surprised and delighted, Selden was also very excited, but soon realized that Aneri was staring at him and immediately bowed his head at a 90-degree angle to Ban Yu-won.
“I’m sorry, brother!”
“Even if it’s right, there’s a person who doesn’t call you ‘hyung’… … So what happened?”
And for some reason, I didn’t like the way he acted because it was strangely gangster-like.
Ban Yu-won sighed and turned his head back to the video. Suddenly, he noticed a change on the screen and tilted his head.
“What is this ship?”
“Ship?”
Keira clung to his back, staring at the screen, her mouth wide open.
“What, what? Why are they here?”
“Who is it? Did the teenage family show up?”
Even if the sky falls, there is nothing that can make Aneri hurry now.
She approached them only after she had carefully moved the rare metal and stored it in the safest place she knew how.
Suddenly appearing in the space between the two-dimensional pirates and the Guardian Alliance, a gigantic spaceship that was larger than all of them alone appeared――Seeing the musical note seal engraved on the side of the spaceship, he showed a reaction no less than Keira.
“Melodia… … You really are a teenage family?!”
The teenage family has the limitation that it cannot directly move towards what is happening in the lower dimensions.
Last summer vacation, wasn’t there a lot of criticism and warnings poured out even when Prominence made an indirect move to attack Earth by creating an Orc Wave?
In order to move freely, free from various restrictions, several conditions must be met, and Melodia either ignored those conditions and moved… … or met them, one of the two.
“Oh my, I never thought another force would really appear.”
Kang Eun-young muttered with a look of headache on her face, then gave Aneri a sharp look.
“You won’t get caught, right?”
“Of course, Lady Seira. Even if the Melodia family head came in person, they wouldn’t know.”
Destruction of evidence is a ninja’s basic duty.
There is no longer any trace of metal made from the True Dragon material in this space.
Of course, Ban Yu-won also gathered all the materials he had taken out and stuffed the research books that would surely drive anyone with a connection to dragons crazy if they saw them deep into his inventory.
Meanwhile, Melodia’s spaceship fired a light pulse, freezing and destroying dozens of ships belonging to a nearby two-dimensional pirate group.
Just one light magic ritual at a time.
Of course, it is unknown how many wizards on the spaceship recited the spell together, but with just one move―― they were able to annihilate nearly 70% of the dimensional pirates’ power.
– Go away.
The message from the spaceship was also simple and clear.
The ships on the Exodus side that were lucky enough to survive turned around immediately without responding as if their officers had given orders, but the Crimson Spear did not do so.
―It’s too light for a family of teenagers to move. Of course we’re easy, but are those behind us easy?
Extremely arrogant and confident speech.
Is that what a fox that runs wild with the power of a tiger looks like?
Perhaps the reason Crimson Spear grew so quickly was because they didn’t hide the existence of their backers.
… … But today they picked the wrong opponent.
When Melodia’s spaceships struck again, Crimson Spear’s fleet was destroyed despite evasive maneuvers, leaving only one ship behind.
-Tell the master.
A voice with no sense of high or low echoed through space.
―The only thing we fear is the One who divided the world and the rules of this universe. Those moths who have lost the undying flame and are still foolishly swaying, we can trample on them at any time.
Indeed, it seems that even in that situation, he did not have the courage to repeat the provocation.
The only remaining Crimson Spear quietly turned its bow and disappeared beyond the dimensional wall.
While Ban Yu-won was looking at it and seriously thinking, ‘Can I do that too?’, Kang Eun-young said, drooling.
“It seems like something really happened that would allow Melodia to intervene in this dimension.”
“True Dragon. Melodia is a dimension that carries on the legacy of the True Dragon. Of course, it must have a special contract related to it. Perhaps… … Lady Seira, they may already have a sense of what was unearthed from the ruins this time.”
Aneri, who was confident that even if the Melodia family came, they wouldn’t know, would always mutter with a scared expression.
Ban Yu-won, who had seen her scared for the first time, nodded his head, thinking that the teenage dimension was indeed different, and at this point, he quietly opened his mirror and sent a distress signal.
– Me: Save me.
-Aire: See you later.
Lived.
Friends are the best after all!
